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in the sea, has old literary tradition - from antiquity (Alkey) and romanticists (Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient mariner”, Lermontov “From Tsejdlitsa”) and to known “The Bateau Ivre” of Rimbaud. However, these images of Russian and Scottish literature embody something more, than tragedy of the lonely per son - it’s the universal destiny of mankind. Denis Glover, who has visited Murmansk in 1976, remembers the war time in a poem “For the Woman from Murmansk”. He emotionally describes the severe conditions of the Polar region and heroism of English marines: “We bat tled / as devils with the bitter sea storm and Germans. / Now I am much more senior, than was then. / But the Polar icy cold is memorable to me!” War theme in works by frontline writers preserved traditional for the Kola North literature images of severe snowy nature and Russian national character as it was regarded by the past-time writers. It revealed itself brighter in extreme war situation and the heroic pathos was emphasized. Soviet and European writ ers have more in common describing the war theme in the Kola North. North is depicted as a universal image of the pole of cold and darkness, as a severe and dangerous world (icy sea, snow-clad mountains). War gives birth to chaos and death, however people are united by frontline brotherhood and the writers are united by equal respect to human values. A man, regardless his nationality, be come not a victim but equally great to his tragic and heroic destiny. § 5. Modern Sami literature: Oktyabrina Voronova, Askold Bazhanov, Nadezhda Bolshakova in the context of national identity Heyday of literature, in general, contributed to birth of contemporary lit erature of the Kola North indigenous Sami people and in 2010 it turned 20 years. Sami literature exists both in Russian and Sami. Some of contempo rary Sami writers are not only literate but also have acquired higher education and experience in big cities of Russia. In late 1970s a teacher from Lovozero Alexandra Antonova composed a Sami letter book and translated into Sami creations by Bazhanov and Bolshakova and some poems of Russian poets. The Kola Sami prose and poetry have preserved their identity both in contents and imagery to traditional, century’s long mode of life and “arctic civilization” cre ated by them. Researchers into Sami literature (Panteleeva, Bolshakova, Smir nov) distinguish general motives and main themes in Sami writers works and, according to a remarkable poet Oktyabrina Voronova, they are “the sun, tundra, river, mother, father, land” and, of course reindeer and “reindeer people”. L. Panteleeva assumes that mythology defines the base of the Sami people spiri tual consciousness. Sami writer’s world perception has preserved folklore ori gins. Askold Bazhanov was the first Sami poet who wrote a collection of poems about reindeer people (Sami). Askold Bazhanov, a man who worked all his life at an ore processing plant, nevertheless enchants in his poems the sun, northern nature, spolokhi (northern lights), and “the sun wind” gives birth to “green 91